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The settling in process continues… at last we are online again!
There’s been somewhat of a death in posting activity over the past few weeks, not because we’ve not had loads to say but rather because the ADSL line still hasn’t been installed yet (supposedly it’s another week or so away). A...
Trying to settle back into the UK
With our previous problems of settling into France at the start we thought that we’d make an early start on getting into the education, tax, social security, etc. systems. On the education front, we were anticipating problems in that whilst ...
Getting to our new home
Whilst the trip out to France seemed like a rather long trek at the time, the trip back was considerably shorter thanks to rethinking of the route and being able to be more organised before our departure. Thanks to the courtyard we were able to space...
On our way at last!
By the time you read this we should be well on our way to the ferry. Although we’re going on one of the longest routes this time going the whole way from France to Ireland in one go, it’s actually by far the cheapest ferry route for us. N...
We’re off
By the time you read this we should finally be underway on our journey back to the UK. Despite us having the luxury of being able to spread the packing out over a week or so we still found that we had an awful lot of stuff still to find a home in the...
The luxury of several days at the packing
What’s turned out to be the greatest advantage in our move this time around has been that we have a courtyard and could therefore spread the packing in over several days. That simple change has meant that we’ve been able to take a great d...
Five years on and still not settled in!
Although you might think that five years would be more than enough time to get settled into a new area, in our case it seems that the local tax authorities still haven’t recognised that we actually live here! The reason for that is largely down...
Almost at moving day
As moving day approaches there are loads of last minute things needing done. Sometime today we’ll be trying to get the mail redirection sorted out. I say “trying” because we rarely are successful on our first attempt at anything wit...
Aren’t diet pills confusing?
Now that I’ve started thinking about going down the pill route to jump start the transition to a trimmer me, I’m all confused! OK, so fat burners are presumably about speeding up the use of fat within your body. Easy, though sometimes wit...
The administrative side of returning home
Whilst we expected to have admin hassles when we moved to France in that we didn’t understand all the intricacies of the French health, social security and tax administration, it’s not necessarily so easy to both get out of the French sys...
Don’t burn your bridges when you leave work to emmigrate…
Although we set off for France with the intention of spending the rest of our lives here, in practice I left on a career break which left open the chance of me returning to work at any time up to five years from my departure from work way back on Feb...
